Just as an aside on this....ads are already placed for open positions with the company that Brian works for....

>I remember reading Mac Rubel's June 1998 FoxPro Advisor article entitled "U.S. Military's Secret Weapon -- Visual FoxPro!" about the Joint Flow and Analysis System for Transportation (JFAST). I have never seen a JFAST demo but it along with the Eurotunnel project are two of the most impressive VFP apps.
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>An in depth article on CFAST and how Brian Jones created it would certainly go a long way in showing the power of VFP and would make an excellent success story. Hey Ken, any chance of showcasing CFAST on the main VFP web site?
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>Here are some excerpts from the DevCon 2002 coverage on CFAST:
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>Day 2
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>One of the most interesting presentations was "CFAST and Visual Foxpro" by Brian
>Jones. CFAST stands for Collaborative Force-Building Analysis Sustainment and
>Transportation". It allows the milirtary planners collaboratively construct major
>military forces and sustainment, plan theyr deployment and assess different
>scenarios. To meet the challenge of reducing the operations planning time by 50%,
>CFAST employs such key Microsoft technologies as Visual FoxPro, .Net, Share Point,
>SQL Server, Terminal server, Conference server and Exchange server. This is a
>prototype system developed for the Department on Defence. One of its parts is
>JFAST, that many of you may already know. I personally saw the demonstration of one
>of JFAST versions at Palm Springs Devcon in 1999 and can say that its great
>graphical interface improved even more. Different parts of this project collaborate
>with each other online, and the part that plans the operations passes the data to
>JFAST which plays different scenarios for it. Components of this project are
>written using different languages - VB.NET, Visual FoxPro C++, SQL Server, etc. We
>were shown the JFAST v 8.1 Beta, which is a VFP application. Further details are
>classified.:)
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>Day 3
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>The very interesting announcement was made yesterday by Brian Jones at the session
>on CFAST project (that I wrote about in yesterday's report). Brian said that the
>development of this project was just approved for the next 13 years. Note, that
>significant part of this project is JFAST application written in VFP. I would not
>encourage you to read too much between the lines of this statement (something like
>that VFP future is guaranteed for the next 13 years). This is just the fact that a
>very big multibillion dollars project will continue to use VFP in a very important
>application for the mission critical military purposes. This application may be
>used also in the civil and humaniatarian aid purposes, where relocation planning of
>the huge number of the resources is required. It was noted, that one of the big
>advantages of using VFP in this project is its unique ability to call user-defined
>functions from within SQL statements. So, in any case, it is something to tell
>about to the clients or IT managers for their question "Why VFP?". Brian noted that
>they will need VFP developers for this project, by the way.
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